Yankee Fighter: The Story Of An American In The Free French Foreign Legion, By Lieutenant John F. Hasey, As Told To Joseph F. Dinneen Illustrations Lieutenant John F. Hasey Frontispiece Four Days after Being Wounded in the Desert 12 One Month after Wound, with First Decoration 12 At the Scottish Hospital, near Jerusalem 12 Lieutenant Hasey Decorated by General Catroux 14 Training near Paris 82 Off to Finland from Paris 82 The Iroquois Ambulance Corps at the Chateau 86 Around the Table with Eddie Wiggins 86 Ambulance Drivers in Finland 98 Camouflaged for Work in Snow 98 Seeing the French Ambassador in Washington 132 Interview with Senators Lodge and Walsh 132 At Home 134 On Teachers College Platform, Bridgewater 134 General and Mme. Charles de Gaulle while in England 184 ILLUSTRATIONS Free French Navy on Parade in Douala 212 Landing 212 Shallow Draft Ferry in the Cameroons 212 Review of the Black Troops at Douala 214 General de Gaulle Greeted in the Belgian Congo 214 Setting-up Exercises in the Sudan 226 Eritrea : Roasting Goats 226 The Legion Enters the Eritrean Desert 226 The Lieutenant Sleeps in Homemade Shade 230 His One Meal a Day 230 Soldiers of Hasey 's Platoon 230 Lieutenant Hasey in Syria 268 Legion Observation Post outside Damascus 270 The Lieutenant after Thirteen Days' Campaigning 270 Attacking with Tanks near Damascus 270 Germans in Vichy-French Planes Bomb the Legion 274 Motor Convoy Truck in the Sudan 274 Part of Hasey's Platoon near Kisque 274 Letter from General de Gaulle to Lieutenant Hasey 292 Digitzed by Google.

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